Method of producing color-card chips.



J. S. WEINBERG.

METHOD OF PRODUCING COLOR CARD CHIPS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, I9I7.

Patented July 3, 1917.

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METHOD OF PRODUCING COLOR-CARD CHIPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 191 7.

Application filed May 9, 1917, Serial No. 167,542.

I Z '0 all whom it may concern:

the method of producing color card chips upon which at least two distinct colors are shown, for instance, samples of paint colors for walls and ceilings of rooms, or other COlIllilllltttlOllS of colors for other purposes. The invention consists in the herein de scribed several novel steps employed in the method of producing color cardchips.

In carrying out this invention, I employ certain mechanical devices which are illustrated in the drawing accompanying this specification, in which:

Figure 1, is a plan of a stencil-like device, which is employed in coloring a sheet of cardboard from which the chips are cut; Fig. 2, is a side view of said stencil-like device; Fig. 8, is a face view of a fragment of a sheet after the colors have been applied thereto; and Fig. 4c, is a face View of one of the color card chips cut from said sheet.

In carrying out the present process, I take a sheet of cardboard, smooth paper or the like A, place the same upon a flat bed plate or table 5, and place upon the cardboard an open frame 6, which has a number of crosswise extending bars 7, adjustably mounted on the frame so that the spaces between the bars may be varied to suit the requirements. Said bars may be held in place by screws and wing nuts, as shown. If desired, the frame may behinged to the bed plate at one end, and clamped down on the i a bed plate at the other end, if so desired, to

prevent accidental shifting of the frame on the cardboard sheet. I then take an air brush (not shown) and fill the reservoir with. paint of the color desired, and apply the same to the exposed portions of the cardboard between the bars, the result beingjthatparallel rows of paint, designated by the reference numeral 8, are applied to the.

: surface of the card board, spaced apart by alternating rows of unpainted portions l/Vhen the paint is dry, the unpainted rows of the cardboard are covered with paint of another shade or color, using the stenciling device as before, with the bars laid upon the previously painted rows to cover the painted portions. The alternate rows 9, illustrate colors which may be used upon the walls of rooms and the intermediate rows 8, illustrate the colors used upon the ceilings. After the paint has been applied to the cardboard, as above set forth, the portions 8, representing the ceiling color may be further decorated by printing thereon representations of ornamental borders, indicated at 10. The cardboard is thereafter out along the'dotted lines represented at XX, and along the lines represented at YY, whereby a large number of small chips A are produced, one of which is seen at Fig. 4;.

The surface of each color card chip, it will be observed, comprises a colored portion 9, and a contrasting color portion 8, representing the wall and ceiling colors respectively. In accordance with the common and well-known practice, an assortment of color card chips, having various colors and border ornamentations are pasted to a sheet of paper having printed information relating to the color card chips.

It is to be observed that by producing a color card chip in accordance with the present method, each chip comprises a single thickness of material having the two contrasting colors painted thereon, and that they may be produced economically, and still have a very attractive appearance, illustrating the exact shades of colors which they represent. I-Ieretofore color card chips which contain two colors have been made of separate pieces, one containing one color and the other con taining another color, and both pasted upon a backing strip and the whole pasted to the sample color card.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let.- ters Patent:

1. The herein described method of producing color card chips which consists in, first, covering the surface of a sheet of cardboard with spaced rows of paint; second, covering the spaces between said rows with a different shade or color of paint; and third, cutting the cardboard midway between the edges of the rows of paint, and :4

also along lines at right angles thereto.

2. The herein described method of pro- 10 along lines at right angles thereto.

3. The herein described method of producing single thickness color card chlps,

which consists in applying alternate and in termediate rows of contrasting colors to the cardboard sheet, applying representations of ornamental borders to the alternating rows, slitting said sheet midway between the edges of said rows and along lines at right angles thereto.

JACOB S. lVEINBEBG.

Copies of this patent may he obtained for fire cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' i Washington, D. C. 

